{"id":3567,"date":"2010-08-15T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2010-08-15T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:05:10","slug":"under-the-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/15\/under-the-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"under the dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/415bKDsvo7L._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"160\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used to be an avid Stephen King reader, devouring everything that he wrote, and using my holiday bookstore gift certificates to buy whatever book he inevitably published that year. \u00a0Then I kind of grew out of it a bit, and pretty much stopped reading his books somewhere around college.  Not intentionally.  I just found&#8230;other things to read that seemed more important.<\/p>\n<p>But now that I&#8217;m reading an average of a book a week, I decided to pick up his latest, since the price on the e-book finally dropped to something reasonable.  And it was great.  Disturbing, harrowing, a little creepy (all in good ways).  While the imposition of the dome was external\/alien, the real evil was manifested within.  I&#8217;m not sure I buy the idea that it could devolve quite so quickly (less than a week), but as a study of how petty, local, power-hungry (and religiously fervent) despots become truly obsessed with their own power, it was really fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m glad I picked it up.  Now I just have to convince myself to go back and finish the Dark Tower series, which I abandoned halfway through with the thought that he was never going to finish writing the darn thing.  But apparently Mr. King has finished it, so I&#8217;m adding it to my wish list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be an avid Stephen King reader, devouring everything that he wrote, and using my holiday bookstore gift certificates to buy whatever book he inevitably published that year. \u00a0Then I kind of grew out of it a bit, and pretty much stopped reading his books somewhere around college. Not intentionally. I just found&#8230;other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-Vx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}